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Regulatory Discretion Fosters Clean Tech

Regulatory Discretion Fosters Clean Tech

Increased regulatory discretion can improve outcomes for entrepreneurs and enhance the impact of stakeholder activists.

Maintaining the Durability of Regulatory Analysis

Maintaining the Durability of Regulatory Analysis

Susan Dudley, former OIRA Administrator, discusses proposed changes to federal guidelines for regulatory impact analysis.

Legal Limbo for Afghan Evacuees

Legal Limbo for Afghan Evacuees

Scholars examine the legal uncertainty facing Afghan nationals granted humanitarian parole.

Online Processes in Agency Adjudication

Online Processes in Agency Adjudication

Agencies can improve their adjudicatory processes by broadening access to their electronic case management systems.

Improving Virtual Public Engagement

Improving Virtual Public Engagement

A new series of recommendations from ACUS will help agencies improve their use of virtual engagement in rulemakings.

Artificial Intelligence for Retrospective Regulatory Review

Artificial Intelligence for Retrospective Regulatory Review

Artificial intelligence can help agencies review and improve their existing regulations.

Using Technology to Improve Administration

Using Technology to Improve Administration

ACUS issues new recommendations to enhance administrative governance through digital technology.

Affirmatively Disclosing Agency Legal Materials

Affirmatively Disclosing Agency Legal Materials

ACUS takes an important step forward toward improving agency disclosure of legal materials.

Hotter Days Making Harder Work

Hotter Days Making Harder Work

Scholars discuss how regulating heat exposure at work could protect workers as temperatures rise.

Achieving Regulatory Success Through Failure

Achieving Regulatory Success Through Failure

Scholar argues that regulators need “permission to fail” when adapting to private sector innovation.

Grid Governance Reform for a Clean Energy Transition

Grid Governance Reform for a Clean Energy Transition

Scholars urge RTOs to adopt more pluralist governance model.

Modernizing the “Value of a Statistical Life”

Modernizing the “Value of a Statistical Life”

Regulators should adopt alternative approaches to valuing avoided mortality in regulatory analysis.